Once you've gotten a hold of observing, you'll want to move onto the fun stuff - deducing things. Do this enough, and the weird cases will start to lose their weirdness, and you'll begin to see the connections between those cases and more mundane observations. I would encourage you to ask them about it, in order to find the reason behind Match every person with their weirdest observation. In any case, find the weird ones, and find out why Maybe it's just plain weird (Ex: person wearing vibrant purple suit and aįeather boa). Observation (Ex: someone wearing a sweater when it's hot outside), or

Shoe is different from the other), that it disagrees with another It could be that the observation you make is rare (Ex: one That is to say, start to sort your mental list of observations by Once you've gotten a feel for level 2, try narrowing down the observations until you get a short list of unusual Begin to make predictions about what observations you'll see based on ones you have already observed. Start to mentally keep track of these relationships. Once you've gotten used to level 1, you may begin to notice that some observations naturally go together more often (Ex: wearing a watch on the left hand / writing with the right hand). Imagine you've been given 30 seconds to study a person and at the end, you'll have to close your eyes and take a quiz (You don't actually have to do that, but that's the spirit of the exercise.). I don't want to know if they're right handed, I only want to know what hand their watch is on. Pick a person and make a mental list of everything you see.

Sherlock Holmes famously said, 'you see, but you do not observe.' In order to correct for this, I've developed a 3-level game, the goal of which is to get you to be consciously aware of what you see.

How to practice the art of deduction